Extracts from the Minute-Booh of the Linnean Society. 665 



Feb. 7. Read a Description of a new British Grass, by Charles C. Babing- 



ton, Esq., M.A. F.L.S. 



Festuca {Sclerochloa) Borreri, panicula divaricata : ramis fructiferis 

 adscendentibus patentibus, spiculis linearibus sub- 4-floris, flosculis 

 liberis, glumis apiculatis obsolete S-nerviis, radice fibrosa. 



Differt a F. distante {Glyceria, Sni.) paniculse ramis fructiferis 

 adscendentibus, spiculis sub- 4-floris et giuraa corollina apiculata 

 cum nervo dorsali ad apicem producto ; a F. procumbente paniculse 

 ramis patentibus, spiculis dimidio minoribus, gluma corollina api- 

 culata et caule erecto ; a F. maritima {F. thalassina, Kunth) pani- 

 culse ramis fnictiferis patentibus, spiculis dimidio minoribus, foliis 

 planis. 



I have named this plant in compliment to my friend William 

 Borrer, Esq., by whom it has long been considered as a distinct spe- 

 cies. It appears to be far from rare upon the sea-coast, but has been 

 usually confounded with Glyceria distans of Sir J. E. Smith. I have 

 gathered it at Harwich and in Canvey Island, Essex ; and Mr. Borrer 

 informs me that he has observed it in various places on the coasts of 

 Hampshire and Sussex. 



Feb. 21. Mr. Iliff", F.L.S. exhibited a piece of an Oak, which was blown 

 down in Windsor Park during the late storm, and which, on being 

 split open, was found to contain the following letters and figures cut 

 in the wood, and the impressions reversed on the layers subse- 

 quently formed, " fV. B. 16/0." 



